7 research outputs found
Walks and the spectral radius of graphs
We give upper and lower bounds on the spectral radius of a graph in terms of
the number of walks. We generalize a number of known results.Comment: Corrections were made in Theorems 5 and 11 (the new numbers are
different), following a remark of professor Yaoping Ho
Spectral radius of finite and infinite planar graphs and of graphs of bounded genus
It is well known that the spectral radius of a tree whose maximum degree is
cannot exceed . In this paper we derive similar bounds for
arbitrary planar graphs and for graphs of bounded genus. It is proved that a
the spectral radius of a planar graph of maximum vertex degree
satisfies . This result is
best possible up to the additive constant--we construct an (infinite) planar
graph of maximum degree , whose spectral radius is . This
generalizes and improves several previous results and solves an open problem
proposed by Tom Hayes. Similar bounds are derived for graphs of bounded genus.
For every , these bounds can be improved by excluding as a
subgraph. In particular, the upper bound is strengthened for 5-connected
graphs. All our results hold for finite as well as for infinite graphs.
At the end we enhance the graph decomposition method introduced in the first
part of the paper and apply it to tessellations of the hyperbolic plane. We
derive bounds on the spectral radius that are close to the true value, and even
in the simplest case of regular tessellations of type we derive an
essential improvement over known results, obtaining exact estimates in the
first order term and non-trivial estimates for the second order asymptotics
Unsolved Problems in Spectral Graph Theory
Spectral graph theory is a captivating area of graph theory that employs the
eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices associated with graphs to study them.
In this paper, we present a collection of topics in spectral graph theory,
covering a range of open problems and conjectures. Our focus is primarily on
the adjacency matrix of graphs, and for each topic, we provide a brief
historical overview.Comment: v3, 30 pages, 1 figure, include comments from Clive Elphick, Xiaofeng
Gu, William Linz, and Dragan Stevanovi\'c, respectively. Thanks! This paper
will be published in Operations Research Transaction
Connections Between Extremal Combinatorics, Probabilistic Methods, Ricci Curvature of Graphs, and Linear Algebra
This thesis studies some problems in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, Ricci curvature of graphs, spectral hypergraph theory and the interplay between these areas. The first main focus of this thesis is to investigate several Ramsey-type problems on graphs, hypergraphs and sequences using probabilistic, combinatorial, algorithmic and spectral techniques: The size-Ramsey number Rˆ(G, r) is defined as the minimum number of edges in a hypergraph H such that every r-edge-coloring of H contains a monochromatic copy of G in H. We improved a result of Dudek, La Fleur, Mubayi and Rödl [ J. Graph Theory 2017 ] on the size-Ramsey number of tight paths and extended it to more colors.
An edge-colored graph G is called rainbow if every edge of G receives a different color. The anti-Ramsey number of t edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees, denoted by r(n, t), is defined as the maximum number of colors in an edge-coloring of Kn containing no t edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees. Confirming a conjecture of Jahanbekam and West [J. Graph Theory 2016], we determine the anti-Ramsey number of t edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees for all values of n and t.
We study the extremal problems on Berge hypergraphs. Given a graph G = (V, E), a hypergraph H is called a Berge-G, denoted by BG, if there exists an injection i ∶ V (G) → V (H) and a bijection f ∶ E(G) → E(H) such that for every e = uv ∈ E(G), (i(u), i(v)) ⊆ f(e). We investigate the hypergraph Ramsey number of Berge cliques, the cover-Ramsey number of Berge hypergraphs, the cover-Turán desity of Berge hypergraphs as well as Hamiltonian Berge cycles in 3-uniform hypergraphs.
The second part of the thesis uses the ‘geometry’ of graphs to derive concentration inequalities in probabilities spaces. We prove an Azuma-Hoeffding-type inequality in several classical models of random configurations, including the Erdős-Rényi random graph models G(n, p) and G(n,M), the random d-out(in)-regular directed graphs, and the space of random permutations. The main idea is using Ollivier’s work on the Ricci curvature of Markov chairs on metric spaces. We give a cleaner form of such concentration inequality in graphs. Namely, we show that for any Lipschitz function f on any graph (equipped with an ergodic random walk and thus an invariant distribution ν) with Ricci curvature at least κ \u3e 0, we have
ν (∣f − Eνf∣ ≥ t) ≤ 2 exp (-t 2κ/7).
The third part of this thesis studies a problem in spectral hypergraph theory, which is the interplay between graph theory and linear algebra. In particular, we study the maximum spectral radius of outerplanar 3-uniform hypergraphs. Given a hypergraph H, the shadow of H is a graph G with V (G) = V (H) and E(G) = {uv ∶ uv ∈ h for some h ∈ E(H)}. A 3-uniform hypergraph H is called outerplanar if its shadow is outerplanar and all faces except the outer face are triangles, and the edge set of H is the set of triangle faces of its shadow. We show that the outerplanar 3-uniform hypergraph on n vertices of maximum spectral radius is the unique hypergraph with shadow K1 + Pn−1